March 18, 1869 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England November 9, 1940 Heckfield, near Reading, Hampshire prime minister of the United Kingdom from May 28, 1937, to May 10, 1940, whose name is identified with the policy of “ appeasement ” toward Adolf Hitler ’s Germany in the period...

April 20, 1889 Braunau am Inn, Austria April 30, 1945 Berlin, Germany leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party (from 1920/21) and chancellor (Kanzler) and Führer of Germany (1933–45). He was chancellor from January 30, 1933, and, after President Paul von Hindenburg’s...